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Women’s Own: Lynne Barrett-Lee

I can offer up no other explanation for the fact that I wasted so much of my childhood obsessed with the idea that I was destined not for graft, but for greatness Read

Mind matters: Tryst Williams

It is time we continued Wales’ quiet revolution towards a more just, more balanced world than can be currently found in the rotten world of Middle England Read

Women’s Own: Lynne Barrett-Lee

I can offer up no other explanation for the fact that I wasted so much of my childhood obsessed with the idea that I was destined not for graft, but for greatness Read

Mind matters: Tryst Williams

It is time we continued Wales’ quiet revolution towards a more just, more balanced world than can be currently found in the rotten world of Middle England Read

ID you ever dream of being a super-hero?

I can honestly say, chubby hand on my heart, I had less grand ambitions when I was small. I used to stand in our garden and dream of being able to do forward rolls. Not much of a grand goal, was it? Read

Home truths: Graeme Whitfield

MAYBE you think the credit crunch isn’t funny. I disagree. Of course there is nothing inherently comical about house repossessions, redundancies and financial gloom. Read

And the winner in the Glasgow East by-election is – David Cameron

NO matter what you think about the actual result in the Glasgow East by-election – good, bad or ugly – one thing is clear: the real winner was David Cameron. Read

And the winner in the Glasgow East by-election is – David Cameron

NO matter what you think about the actual result in the Glasgow East by-election – good, bad or ugly – one thing is clear: the real winner was David Cameron. Read

Raucous cricket fans are sign of the times

SITTING in the garden on a sun-kissed evening this week, my thoughts turned to those sweet summers of yore and to radio critic Paul Donovan. Read

They treated sons badly – but their trial was for fraud

IT’S NOT quite the paradise life that John and Anne Darwin were looking forwards to in Panama. Read

When an oldie’s memories can suddenly become highly desirable

WATCHING the Antiques Road Show I’m often amazed by the way things once cheap and ordinary become interesting and valuable a century later. I’m discovering that something like that can happen to people – at least to their memories. Read

Wii will overcome the class barrier if players get a taste for real polo

TRADITIONALLY, the confession that one had spent the afternoon in the company of a guitar-playing rabbit would have triggered a police raid for controlled substances. Read

Clothes mix-up maketh the little man into a mini Michelin Manners

THE benefits of having a big brother are many. Thanks to Big Bro’s helpful interventions, my four-year-old is now not only able to wallop a football in the right direction with gusto, but is also light-years better than me (OK, hardly difficult) on the PlayStation. Read

Bored? Cotton wool kids can’t do anything

WELL, it’s that time of year again. Summer holidays. Kids on the loose for six weeks. Women’s magazines full of advice on how to cope. So what’s that sound echoing all over South Wales? Why, it’s the cry of the Old Codger, the mantra of the middle-aged moaner: “Makes me sick. Kids whining ‘Dunno wot to do’. Saying they’re bored. Now in our day. . .” Read